In a direct appeal to Gov. Kathy Hochul, members of the Assembly Minority Conference are calling for the immediate repeal of ...

The HALT Act remains at the center of the corrections officers strike across New York. Los Angeles removes fire chief in wake ...

A mediator has been appointed to facilitate talks between New York State and the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, as protests outside state prisons continue into ...

Despite demands from the State of New York that they end their wildcat strike, and some concessions made on the part of the ...

Men imprisoned at Woodbourne Correctional Facility said they had been denied hot meals and confined to their cells.

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (WCAX) - Friday was day 5 of a protest and strike by New York corrections officers in the North Country. The deadline has passed for prison workers to avoid repercussions and it seems ...

Corrections officers are protesting — and in some areas, holding unsanctioned strikes — as current and former COs seek to bring attention to what they say are unfair working conditions and restrictive ...

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...

Demands for better working conditions are echoing loudly from correction officers at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in ...

Correction officers remained out on the picket lines in Coxsackie on Friday. It marked the third day of correction officers ...

Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo calling for a temporary pause to parts of the HALT Act—or—Humane ...

Corrections officers who have been on strike this week at nearly 30 state-run prisons will go to mediation to resolve their ...